Stopping bug management

[Martin Flöser]

Hi all,

I just wanted to let you know that I will no longer go through the KWin 
bug reports. As I hardly follow development any more I cannot really 
have a look at new issues coming up. I noticed that I can only comment 
on the general X11/Wayland issues and I'm seeing there that the new 
generation wants to handle things differently. For me it was most 
important in bug management to keep the number of open reports so low 
that bugs.kde.org has a meaning. If we have 500 open bug reports it 
becomes impossible to go to bugs.kde.org and just pick a random issue to 
work on. So I tended to close everything which is a general X11 issue 
and I closed all feature request coming in as we never implemented 
feature requests anyway. The way I handled the bug reports was good for 
the project but many users were annoyed - you can see many comments on 
social media complaining about the way I handled bugs. It meant when 
having half an hour of spare time you could go to bko and look at the 
issues and pick one to fix. If too many bugs are open the half an hour 
will be spent on finding an issue which one can actually work on and is 
not a general X11 issue.

Especially Nate is doing this differently. I see him reopening decade 
old bugs which are unfixable on X11. I see him reopening bugs I closed 
as they are out of scope. I see him complaining when I just close bug 
reports. That's fine with me, if he wants to do things differently, I 
don't want to stand in the way and force my way. But that means I can 
also no longer work on the general X11 issue reports, so it doesn't make 
sense for me to continue going through the bug reports.

Cheers
Martin